90:. Frustration

Now I know what it feels like to do all that you can personally do bring the kids to the Cross during a service, and see no reaction at all. None. Just blank stares and uninterested chattering. Jesus DIED for you, a horrible death, just so that you can really live. You don’t have to be perfect anymore. You don’t have to be a legalist. You can be yourself and know Jesus on a one-on-one basis! He knows you down to your dirty, sinful soul and loves you anyways. How can you not react to a love like that? How can you hear words that depict the love and care that Christ has for us and not be moved? How can you look at Redemption’s Hill and say, “Thanks” and just go on your way? Tell me, how does this happen? God loved us so much that He sent His Son to die like a disgusting, worthless thief. He took every bit of real pain that the world could ever throw at us, and took it because He loves us. Jesus is the only one who can open the hearts of these kids. I pray for every kid who walks through our doors or through the doors of any church, that their hearts would be soft and that they would listen and embrace the story and redemption of Christ. I pray they would be so moved that they can’t help but live their lives for Him. Why doesn’t that shake you? Why doesn’t that move every bit of you? Why don’t I live in the shadow of this every day?

Why?